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Abraham Verghese

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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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